Title kind of says it all but it’s still baffling. Running an old ass amd fx with 24 gig ram in the other computer. Work laptop is an i7 with 64 gigs of ram and is still slower in daily use. Both have ssd boot drives.

Granted im comparing desktop and laptop. But a 15 year difference is pretty crazy to me.

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    It’s because your Linux PC is doing what you want it to do, and your Win 11 PC is doing what your employer + Microsoft wants it to do.

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      Yup. My work PC feels sluggish most days. And it’s because they are remotely recording my entire screen. And I plugged in my ultrawide lmao.

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        I like to think when your employer told you they would record your screen you went out and bought the highest resolution screen money can buy.

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        Look, underclocking (so next upgrade is just over clocking) the users PCs and stealing a little RAM for the Admin PC discreetly is the only way to get their new gaming rig test server and other work environment tools approved by finance

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    Windows being slower as it is, your work machine likely also has a ton of endpoint security and monitoring tools installed that are constantly running.

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    Computers became fast enough about 20 years ago for everything short of gaming for the average user.

    Before that, lots of effort was put into efficiency, specifically in the OS.

    Now days, hardware is so fast, and storage has become so large, the only way to force people to buy new hardware is to create total bloatware and planed obsolescence.

    I’m forced to use windows for work, and have been on 11 for a while now. Many basic tasks are indeed much slower.

    I finally have my own home PC for the first time in decades, and this is one of the many reasons I plan on switching it to linux.

    I want all that horse power going into graphics and gaming, not running a shit OS.

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      Computers became fast enough about 20 years ago for everything short of gaming for the average user.

      The internet will also bring even a modern machine to it’s knees. I recently upgraded my computer at home because the poor 8th gen 6 core i5 was crying in pain. Thanks modern web devs.

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        Fuck web devs

        No, I dont need 30 JS scripts from font.net, google, shopify, sentry, and some bullshit to run in order to look at your Website. I dont need your site to be a fucking unparseable slideshow because every text is a JS script so it can glow in rainbow colors. If I scroll, I want to scroll your goddamn website and not look at a video that only play when you scroll down.

        I want a static website that 90% consists of text and <br/> that I can download with curl and view like it was the real one.

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      Odd, my Core2Duo really struggles on Video playback, browsing, running large applications etc… and that’s less than 20 years old.

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    That’s because ripping into your disk for every click and key press, oh and the constant recording, is very taxing :)

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    Yeah its pretty bad. I have two dell latitudes, one from about 2015 and one newish one. Opensuse on the old one, Win11 on the new one, guess which one isn’t all laggy

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    I always preferred the AMD branch pipeline over Intel. Sadly I haven’t used an AM since that FX era, but I used that until about 5 years ago and still preferred it to that day’s Intels.

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    And the i7 is… What… I7 in laptops don’t mean a lot as many are low speed CPUs and some are high where as on desktop they are almost always high-end.

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      IDK, I have the same experience. It takes 10 good seconds to open the file manager on my win11 work PC with 32GB of ram and 12x CPU threads. It also takes 5 minutes from power up to usable desktop. My Clevo laptop from 2011 with 4x cores and 8GB of RAM sporting Debian is much smoother to operate.